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      <h2>Software Industry in Bangladesh</h2>
      <h3>Present State</h3>
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        <li>Software development does not incorporate best practices.
There are a few reasons for this:</li>
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          <li>Domestic projects do not require proper software
development practices.</li>
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            <li>This is mainly because customers are not aware of it
and consequently no budget is allocated for proper software development
practices.</li>
            <li>Even Government Tender evaluations do not allocate
significant points for proper software development practices. Jobs are
usually assigned to the lowest bidder.</li>
            <li>However, this argument does not go far since there are
only a few companies whose business is solely the Domestic market.</li>
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          <li>Most Outsourced projects require proper software
development practices.</li>
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            <li>However the best practices are not well defined.</li>
            <li>Most companies possess little know-how to fulfill
proper software development prerequisites and usually employ
inexperienced developers, testers, managers etc.</li>
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        <li>Insufficient skilled practitioners for hiring. There are a
few reasons for this:</li>
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          <li>Academia</li>
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            <li>The courses taught are too theoretical.</li>
            <li>Universities do not educate proper development and
testing practices.</li>
            <li>Effective development and testing tools are not taught
to students in programming courses or software engineering courses.
Students are not even made aware of these tools.</li>
            <li>Universities are not aware of the demand in the
corporate world for the right kind of engineers.</li>
            <li>Limited or complete absence of research in this field.</li>
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          <li><span
 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;" lang="EN">Software
Companies</span></li>
          <ul>
            <li><span
 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;" lang="EN">Does
not have any affiliation with Universities to hire the brightest
graduates.</span></li>
            <li><span
 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;" lang="EN">Does
not provide feedback to Universities regarding their curriculum.</span></li>
            <li><span
 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;" lang="EN">Does
not provide the environment where skilled and talented practitioners
may flourish.</span></li>
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        <li><span
 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;" lang="EN">Misconception
exists that proper software development is expensive and a lot of
staffing is required. This implies that only a few companies follow
best practices.</span></li>
        <li><span
 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;" lang="EN">Software
companies know the issues but do not know the proven solution.</span></li>
        <li><span
 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;" lang="EN">Software
Quality Assurance and Testing are not recognized as career paths
because there is little knowledge of its roles, activities and
potentials.</span></li>
        <li><span
 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;" lang="EN">Most
skilled practitioners are either overburdened or ineffective.</span></li>
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      <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"
 lang="EN">Why Others Failed</span></h3>
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        <li><span
 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;" lang="EN">Training
sessions were short with huge content to cover.</span></li>
        <li><span
 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;" lang="EN">Covered
mainly &#8220;What to do&#8221; instead of &#8220;How to do&#8221;.</span></li>
        <li><span
 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;" lang="EN">Did
not target energetic and passionate trainees who are determined to
influence change in the industry.</span></li>
        <li><span
 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;" lang="EN">No
feasible criteria to measure the success of the training.</span></li>
        <li><span
 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;" lang="EN">No
follow up on issues faced by the trainees during implementation.</span></li>
        <li><span
 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;" lang="EN">Certification
was considered a solution.<br>
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 style="font-weight: bold;">Our Manifesto</span><br>
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              <li>We believe that two approaches need to be combined to
build better software:</li>
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                <li>By providing techniques, which support the
development of high quality software.</li>
                <li>By providing techniques, which assure the required
quality attributes during the development of high quality software.<br>
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              <li>We believe that the project team as a whole is
responsible for the quality and success of a software project.</li>
              <li>We are focused on the viable achievement of software
quality with a practitioners approach, instead of certain process
models or standards.</li>
              <li>We believe that software development will always be
difficult and so it can only be feasible with skilled knowledge workers
in the project team. </li>
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